So I spent several hours trying to figure out what’s up with the embeds. Then I got to meet the wildlife guy who’s going to trap the squirrels (the ones I thought were raccoons) nesting in my crawl space. So the little bastards remain my longtime nemesis!

Then I went out to one of the local bars with a friend. We ordered crabs. When we were finished, we noticed weird black spots on the shell of my friend’s crabs. “Where are these from?” I asked the waitress.

I don’t know if it’ll make you feel any better (I’m guessing not) but Corexit is a detergent, so you wouldn’t see it, and you couldn’t get a lot of it. It would kill the animal first. Oil would smear rather than form black spots, and usually it accumulates as grime at joints. The black spots were probably a harmless colony of bluegreen algae that made a really poor choice of neighborhood to settle in. They might even be good for you. Spirulina, that all the fuss is about, is a bluegreen. (Joke! I’m not suggesting you gnaw on the shell in future!)